Dutch Hookbill

The rarest duck in the world. With fewer than two thousand breeding adults worldwide, the Dutch Hookbill is critically endangered. Although once a common bird, pollution of waterways and loss of market favor triggered abrupt decline. We love these ducks, and we know you will too. They are easy to raise, phenomenal foragers, and full of personality.

Dutch Hookbill History

Dutch Hookbill Colors

  • Dusky

    Drakes have brilliant emerald-green heads and pretty bluish-gray bodies; females are
    dark cocoa-brown with gold lacing and penciling.

  • Golden Dusky

    Soften golden hues; exceptionally rare color, especially in drakes.

  • White

    Genotype is recessive white, which hides all other color genes. When Whites are bred to colored birds, 50 to 100% of the offspring can be colored, and there can be some beautiful surprises.

  • Blue

    Hookbills with any extended black pigment are very rare. From this drake, it is possible to recover the extinct black variety!

  • Trout

    Genotype is wild pattern plus light. Brilliant, high contrast plumage; females have eye-catching creamy white facial stripe and heavily spotted bodies. Bright, high contrast colors in both genders. An ancient and now extremely rare color in Hookbills.

  • Golden Trout

    An ancient and now extremely rare color in Hook Bills. A frosted, pastel version of the wild Gray pattern.

  • Aleutian

    Genotype is dusky and light. Bright rich colors; females are fawn with bold polka dot-like dark spotting. Bright colored males with modified wild pattern.

  • Snowy

    Spectacularly brilliant-colored drakes and lovely frosted hens.

  • Golden Sepia

    Genotype is wild pattern and brown. Same plumage patterns as the Grays, but in lovely soft hues. Exceptionally rare, especially in males.

  • Bibbed Snowy

    Rare sub-variety of Snowy, displaying a White Bib on chest.

  • Grey

    Genotype is original wild color. Brilliant-colored males, delicately penciled and laced camouflaged females. All of the varieties are derived from the Grays. They can be bred to any color variety with excellent results. Now a very rare color in Hookbills.
List of All Colors